Act stress after a major scare. Good evening. Its great to start another week with you. And we begin tonight with the evacuations right now and warnings to get off the with the powerful storms on the move at this hour. Tens of millions from kentucky up to maine in the path. And a deluge today in tampa, florida. And a storm moving in montrose beach, illinois. Its the same system that caused a deadly tent collapse. We have it tonight. Gio benitez has the story. Reporter tonight, tampa florida, inundated. A town by the water, now underwater cars left behind water rushing over the wheel wells, happening so fast, hundreds caught off guard. Reporter Sarah Rosario from our tampa affiliate wfts right in the middle of it. This is exactly what they dont want you to do. Reporter more than 40 residents evacuated from flood waters up to four feet high children, their pets, the elderly, all carried out in boats. Ive never seen it in the years i have lived here. Reporter and now the sheriff there war
Act stress after a major scare. Good evening. Its great to start another week with you. And we begin tonight with the evacuations right now and warnings to get off the streets. With the powerful storms on the move at this hour. Tens of millions from kentucky up to maine in the path. And a deluge today in tampa, florida. And a storm moving in montrose beach, illinois. Its the same system that caused a deadly tent collapse. We have it tonight. Gio benitez has the story. Reporter tonight, tampa florida, inundated. A town by the water, now underwater cars left behind water rushing over the wheel wells, happening so fast, hundreds caught off guard. Reporter Sarah Rosario from our tampa affiliate wfts right in the middle of it. This is exactly what they dont want you to do. Reporter more than 40 residents evacuated from flood waters up to four feet high children, their pets, the elderly, all carried out in boats. Ive never seen it in the years i have lived here. Reporter and now the sheriff
It brings power and fury ashore. Irma is the most powerful hurricane formed over the Atlantic Ocean in record red history. Near ft. Lauder dale people were boarding up buildings and putting plywood over winds. Sit a familiar routine but theres nothing routine about this hurricane. This is about 110 miles north of punta cana. It is moving west northwest. Maximum sustained winds are clocked at 180 Miles Per Hour. Good morning. Im katy vzachary. Officials in parts of miami area ordered mandatory evacuations. Floridas governor are strongly urging people to follow the order. They say the gas stations should have fuel today after some stations ran out yesterday. Erika has the latest. A lot to talk about and a lot in the path. Thats right. We are seeing those maximum sustained winds at 175 Miles Per Hour. To your point, still a category 5. This is what we are tracking. Current pressure at 921 milibars. It is headed in our direction and we are expecting land fall some time over the weekend. Pa
White horse pike. This is our camera around route 30. No one really on the road this morning. Everythings going very smoothly out there so far. Lets give you a look at drive times overall. If youre on 76, 95, average speeds are in the 60s. Drive times are looking good. Im seeing a lot of alerts of roadwork, but roadwork that is cleared. Youre not going to have any trouble getting around there this morning. Also a look at mass transit, the war minister train to the airport is running about 12 minutes behind. There are a lot of closures because of Hurricane Irma that are taking place elsewhere, so double check before you head out the door. On its current path, Hurricane Irma is aiming for florida. Hurricane warnings have been issued for south florida and the florida keys for a hit expected over weekend. Right now irma is marching through the caribbean, where the monster storm is responsible for at least 12 deaths. The hurricane began battering turks and caicos last night and into the Ear
Irma, a category 4. And katia, a category 1. It is very active in the gulf and the atlantic basin. We said that earlier this year in june that we were expecting a very active season and Mother Nature did not let us down at all. Currently, we have really nice conditions. A couple of clouds, thats it. And current temperatures, 58 degrees. Coming up in just a bit, well talk about what to expect for the rest of today and through the entire weekend. Well, we have a report of an accident that i want to get you up to speed with. This is in Warrington Township at limekiln park. 476 at baltimore pike, more cars on the roadway, but still not a lot of problems to speak of as of right now. 76, 95, 467, average speeds in the 60, everything is in the green. Pretty easy going out there. Now to breaking news in mexico. Overnight, a deadly magnitude 8. 2 earthquake struck off the coast near the city of chipas. People more than 600 miles away could feel the quake. Residents immediately fled buildings, m